X-47A Pegasus First Flight

this is ASS!! what are these assholes fucking thinking! they want to control the world!! fuck them

is it usual for planes not to retract their landing gear on test flights?

Er, maybe the speed and AoA are a function of the fact that a: The first flight of any prototype is conducted with the gear DOWN, and as a result, the IAS has to be kept low to avoid overspeeding the gear, and b: Because the speed is low, the AoA has to be increased significantly to provide the required lift. This bird was obviously designed for MUCH higher speeds, where it would be MUCH more efficient (and hence the AoA would be most probably in the very low single figures or low negatives)

Fair enough. Ok, what are they really hiding from us?

nice lol!

They see UFOs that dont make any noise...this thing is super loud...

I said it before ill say it agin, "Americans you guys come up with the Koolst things! Keep it up :)"

US copied from Germans? You are telling me Germany had an unmanned, Carrier capable Stealth Drone... If not, then it is not a copy.

All modern planes are designed to be aerodynamically unstable, they are able to fly through computers correcting the plane constantly to force it to do as the pilot wishes. This may seen like a farce, but allows planes to be awkward shapes (like stealth planes) or ultra maneuvarable (like the euro fighter)

Whew! That sure beats my remote controll piper cub by a little.....lol....

im pretty sure the b2, winged design, was 1st drawn up by German, in late 30's. and everything else, just took us that much to catch up. with the computers,.. yes to correct the flight paths. constantly being corrected.. ohh that euro fighter is nice. ;_)

The wing design of the German flying wings are quite different from the B-2.

so were deploying another uav?

@123456789mischief And all copied the 1st ppl who made wheels, whoever they were :P

Another UAV taking the chance for some human to become a pilot, sad, very sad...

Is that X-47A is flying over the Nevada desert, Groom Lake? (silly question)

it was designed to operate on aircraft carriers?

@neverfearchrisishere its only JS fighters that are designed that way to give them the best dog fighting capability the likes of the B2 and B1B are not designed to be unstable

@cr9527 Americans don't do innovation, or even thinking. So it probably is a copy. :D

I think that they also forgot to copy the vertical stabilizer...

@rock3tcat USA has the largest research & development programme on the planet, fully state funded & responsible USA's patent lead. AKA US-Navy research budgets. Paid for by American tax-payers, but handed over to private capitalists who are given the credit. Cold war propaganda scams still running, denying Americans social benefit of tax. for employment, innovation etc. Conserva-nuts put tax money into the Mil. to hide tax benefits from the population. It's a tactic AKA 'permanent arms economy'.

@neverfearchrisishere All modern FIGHTER planes.

If they release this video, it's shit right now. We have a lot more insteresting things. Like IFOs.

I'm watching it on the history channel right now, they got no problem landing on an aircraft carrier.

I hear things like that fly overhead around 2am all the time, not much has changed since the 60s.

@StiviGun1 yeah it is to bad that the government droped the F/A 22 and the F35 is completely under powered they are trying to make it a jack of all trades that is why they are having so many damn problems and is going to be the main aircraft for the Army, Navy/Marines and the Air force and were selling them to foreign powers.as the old adage goes "Better to be a master of one trade then a jack of all."

so sad to see all that talent go into somthing pish like a weapon ,yep we humans a a fucking scourge

@juki0h Boohoo, how does that relate to a project over 4 decades later?

@neverfearchrisishere the f22 and f16 are more maneuvarable than the euro fighter

@neverfearchrisishere i have seen the f22 and f16 bolth fly in an air show and i say f22 also at the pairas air show (the bigies the f22 always wins) and they have things called stabalisers theys days

@neverfearchrisishere i would rather have drones than be some shit contry that cant protect there selfs

These new UCAV's are going to be the future. They can fly high risk missions with zero loss of life. Pull high G maneuvers that would kill human pilots. Remove a 180 pound pilot and add it as fuel or ordinance.

ITS A LODESTAR!

I believe the guy is referring to the technology behind the craft which was re-engineered by the Americans from the nazi technology at the end of WW2. The Arado Ar 234 as well as the messerchmitt 262 were the first jet engine powered aircraft ALSO the stealth design of a 'flying wing' was originally designed by the Germans for the Horten 229. The only reason Northrop Grumman develops such advanced aircraft today is because of the german scientists they recruited in Operation Paperclip

Stealth is relative. What is stealthy then, has virtually no bearing on current designs. By referring to the X-47 as a copy of the Germans because it was "Stealth", and Jet engined is like calling a Mustang being a copy of the Ford Model T

Hell looks dangerous as in not solid

For the Navy to land on Air craft carrier's. ><
    

damn thing looks like a ufo lol at night that could be mistaken for a ufo maybe that's a lot of the sighting's people have been reporting from the last few years. that and other craft we have that very few even know about.

Probably what USS Princeton tracked in 2004.

Autonomous lethal weapons are a real threat. IFO really existed.